By Ron Cohen Deborah Johnson, a central character in Patricia Ione Lloyd’s impassioned drama, Eve’s Song, has a prominent corporate job as a vice-president of acquisitions. She lives in a well-to-do suburb, and at dinner time holds polite conversations with her two children, Lauren, a college student, and Mark, a smart high-schooler, about…
Raúl Esparza Photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Ever wonder what it would have been like to be in near proximity to Adolf Hitler with his demonic rabble-rousing in full power? Well, in real life, that’s probably not a consummation devoutly to be wished. But as a theatrical experience, it’s a…
Photo Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Not very long ago if Jez Butterworth’s deeply enthralling, sold out hit play were to have arrived on these shores we might have looked at it as a trenchant, troubling example of the sins of hatreds handed down Irish generations, an aching chronicle foreign to this…
Photo Credit Doren Sorell by Deirdre Donovan Part biodrama, part confessional, part stand-up comedy, actor-playwright Ronnie Marmo takes the stage at the Cutting Room and gives us a searing portrait of Lenny Bruce in his one-man show I’m Not a Comedian. . .I’m Lenny Bruce. Marmo doesn’t just impersonate the stand-up comic…
By Eugene Paul Several years ago my neighbor called me and asked me if I would accompany her to the police station. It was late, dark, she was alone, a single mom raising her two sons. One of them was in some kind of trouble. Of course I went with her….
Zonya Love, Matt Servitto and Ilana Becker in ‘Emma and Max’ photos Joan Marcus Emma and Max By David Schultz The Flea Theater has the honor of producing underground filmmaker Todd Solondz’s first foray into playwriting. This subversive filmmaker has many fans that crave his dark, snarky vision of humankind. An acquired taste for…
Cast of Gloria. Photo: Joan Marcus By Fern Siegel Gloria Steinem is probably the most recognizable feminist in America. Her impact on politics and culture is profound. So it’s only fitting that her remarkable life be transformed into a play. After all, her story parallels the dramatic fight for women’s rights. The poignant and…
Hugn Dancy, Stockard Channing photos Joan Marcus By Deirdre Donovan Where to start? Maybe with Dane Laffrey’s convincing set that evokes a rustic cottage somewhere in the English countryside. Or with Bradley King’s lighting that bathes the interior with a pale, sober light. Or with the performance of Stockard Channing, confident yet vulnerable…
DeWanda Wise, Khris Davis Photo: Ahron R. Foster By Fern Siegel Set in September 1963, Fireflies posits the searing personal sacrifices in the struggle for civil rights. This powerful two-hander, with a stunning performance by DeWanda Wise as Olivia, the wife of a reverend and major civil-rights leader, takes a deep dive…
Glenn Close and Grace Van Patten photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen The story of Joan of Arc has been told many times, many ways, but playwright Jane Anderson and Glenn Close bring a new and vital dimension as well as sublime emotional depth to the tale in the drama Mother…